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Find out what happened in the first microsecond of the Big Bang
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In the first fraction of a second of this phenomenon, only one matter existed in space, which had the ability to change its forms.
Scientists working on the ALICE detector of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN investigated the phenomenon that happened to the earliest matter during the first microsecond of the Big Bang. The results of the work are published in the journal Physics Letters B.
Science claims that about 14 billion years ago, space with infinite density and temperature of its matter began to expand rapidly. This phenomenon is called the Big Bang.
In the course of this expansion, particles, atoms, stars, galaxies and all of today’s life were formed.
However, the very process of the origin of the primary substance remained unknown.
In the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) experiment of the Large Hadron Collider, scientists studied quark-gluon plasma – the only matter that existed during the first microsecond of the Big Bang.
“First, the plasma, consisting of quarks and gluons, was separated by the hot expansion of the Universe. Then the quark particles were transformed into the so-called hadrons. A hadron with three quarks forms a proton, which is part of atomic nuclei. These nuclei are the building blocks that make up the Earth, we and the universe around us, “say researchers at the University of Copenhagen.
It is noted that the quark-gluon plasma was in the first 0.000001 seconds of the Big Bang, but then disappeared.
“The collider pushes plasma ions together at a tremendous speed – almost the speed of light. This allows you to see how the plasma turns into nuclei of atoms and the building blocks of life,” add physicists.
The developed algorithm made it possible to analyze the collective expansion at the same time and showed that initially the quark-gluon plasma was a liquid, but soon changed its shape.
As a result, it was found that QGP, like water, has a smooth and soft texture, smoothly changing its forms.
We will remind, earlier scientists argued that first life could ariseb 5.2-11.3 billion years after the Big Bang.
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